Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Attorney-General. There has been extensive criticism of the government's Integrity Commission model—judged to be the weakest in Australia. We've been told repeatedly that the department and the Attorney have been considering feedback received during multiple rounds of consultation. At estimates in March this year both the department and Assistant Minister Stoker said of the draft exposure bill: 'We've identified some ways in which it could be improved. We're quite sincere in our desire to reflect that feedback in the next version.' Yet this week the Prime Minister and several other ministers have said that the government's proposal remains unchanged from the exposure draft. Why hasn't feedback been taken into account? Was it always just sham consultation to allow you to delay tabling your bill?